Ptolemy - An instrument to measure stable isotopic ratios of key volatiles on a cometary nucleus

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 363-381

  Wright, I P ^a   Barber, S J ^a   Morgan, G H ^a   Morse, A D ^a   Sheridan, S ^a   Andrews, D J ^a   Maynard, J ^a   Yau, D ^a   Evans, S T ^a   Leese, M R ^a   Zarnecki, J C ^a   Kent, B J ^b   Waltham, N R ^b   Whalley, M S ^b   Heys, S ^b   Drummond, D L ^b   Edeson, R L ^b   Sawyer, E C ^b   Turner, R F ^b   Pillinger, C T ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comets; Gas chromatography; Ion trap; Mass spectrometry; Philae; Rosetta; Stable isotope ratios

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANETARY LANDERS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

COMETS; ION TRAPS; PHILAE; ROSETTA LANDER; STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 34249715741     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-006-9001-5     Document Type: Article

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